Bereavement benefits - now for cohabiting unmarried couples - with children

sammyjammy

The law has finally been changed to include co-habiting couples.

Bereavement Support Payment: Eligibility - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Your relationship to your partner

When your partner died you must have been one of the following:

• married or in a registered civil partnership
• living together as though you were married

p00hsticks

A quick look at the link that suggests that if you are co-habiting but not married, you will only be eligible if pregnant or claiming child benefit though, so co-habitees are stilll treated less favourably than spouses.

calcotti

p00hsticks said:

A quick look at the link that suggests that if you are co-habiting but not married, you will only be eligible if pregnant or claiming child benefit though, so co-habitees are stilll treated less favourably than spouses.

You are correct, the change only applies to those with children.